Kusal Janith Perera Source:Dailynews Sri Lanka Skipper Kusal Janith Perera said that lack of experience among the players was the prime reason for their first One Day International (ODI) series defeat against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Tuesday. “It was a very disappointing team performance during both matches. On both occasions ...

With around 50 percent of Australian-born Sri Lankans living in Melbourne, it is no wonder that there were many multi-faith vigils and prayers held in many parts of Melbourne in the days following the Easter Sunday bombings which took place in Sri Lanka on 21st April 2019. It left two ...

  DORIS MADE EVERY ONES’ DAY: A dazzling star of the distant past, has been sadly beckoned to a land which knows no parting & sorrow. Glamour Girl of the mid-fiftees, sixtees & beyond, who answered the inevitable call from beyond; has crossed the Great Divide. Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, ...

Dr Hector Perera London Turmeric contains bioactive compounds with powerful medicinal properties. Now we know that turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow colour. It has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb. Recently, science has started to back up what ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjkgZE6W8ZE A few months ago I wrote an article titled “David and Goliath” which featured a young English tea planter Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, who rocked the colonial establishment when he sided with the workers and the unions, by demanding better living conditions for  the estate labourers on the plantations. His ...

During my term as Global President of CIMA nearly a decade ago, the theme I chose for my year of leadership was a single word – ‘relevance’. The word relevance is perpetual. It is contextual to when it is used. It is extremely applicable to the finance function and the finance professional of the day. They must be relevant ...

Are Sri Lankan organisations lagging behind? We live in an era of ‘big data’. The volume of data in the world is doubling every five to six months and its growth is exponential.  Every large organisation has around 200 terabytes of internal data – one terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. In ...

Mass of Remembrance and Prayer Vigil for Sri Lanka from Archdiocese of Sydney on Vimeo. The Cathedral was packed to capacity. In fact it was overflowing. The crowd was whispering in soft murmurs. Politicians of all hues, service personnel, diplomats, religious dignitaries, and thousands of ordinary men and women had ...

To Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans terrorism is not a new experience. The country suffered a 30 year scourge where the intent of the perpetrators was achieving a specific political and demographic outcome. The country is now facing a type of terrorism driven by an entirely different global agenda – ...